ustilago maydis

Questions about ustilago maydis

What is another word for ustilago maydis?

It depends which ustilago maydis you mean. In the sense “a common smut attacking Indian corn causing greyish white swellings that rupture to expose a black spore mass”, the synonyms are boil smut. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of ustilago maydis?

WordNet records no antonym for ustilago maydis. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for ustilago maydis come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

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